Each stick of margarine equals one-half cup. So it would take 1 1/2 cups soft margarine to equal 3 sticks.
Because hard margarine has been hardened by reacting it with hydrogen, whilst soft margarine hasn't.
Substitutes for shortening are butter and margarine in sticks. Use the same amount as called for in your recipe. Keep in mind, plain shortening will NOT be as flavorful as butter or margarine. Do not use soft margarine in a tub as it contains too much water.
The major difference is in the formulation, specifically the ratio of saturated to unsaturated fats. Hard margarine will have a higher ratio of saturated to unsaturated fat and therefore will be more solid at room temperature. Soft margarine (sometimes called spreadable margarine) will have a lower ratio of saturated to unsaturated fat and therefore will be less solid at room temperature. At high temperatures (think summer with no A/C), soft margarine may start to separate into liquid and solid phases as the unsaturated fats melt and float to the surface.
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Whether you choose to use butter or soft margarine for a cake, all of your cake ingredients should be room temperature. Margarine or butter needs to be room temperature to make it easier to cream. If it is too cold, or too warm, the cake won't rise properly. Creaming the butter with room temperature butter or margarine allows air to incorporate into it properly.
The company Pizza Hut sells pizzas, bread sticks, wings, different varieties of pasta, cinnamon sticks with icing and much more including soft drinks.
Came with a separate package of a coloring agent which you had to add and mix in yourself. Yellow margarine could not be purchased. Butter was yellow, margarine was white. Lard was white. Yellow was a premium product and laws were passed to insure that you couldn't peddle lard or vegetable oils as the Real Thing.
You can substitute margarine for butter in all types of baking.
Did you use soft margarine, stick butter always works best for me.
But yes, in fact if you substitute shortening for butter in the tollhouse cookie recipe they will come out big and stay soft.
Yes you can buy margarine in the UK. It exists in the original quite hard form which is good for use in baking cakes and pastries and also in the more modern soft form which you can spread straight from the refrigerator.
They use very damp and soft sticks to build leaves.